Deliberative processes and evidence-informed decision making in healthcare: Do they work and how might we know?

Evidence and Policy

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 357-371

  Culyer, Anthony J ^a   Lomas, Jonathan ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR WORK AND HEALTH   (Canada)

^b Canadian Health Services Research Foundation   (Canada)

Author keywords

Evidence based particle; Health services research; Scientific evidence

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748626783     PISSN: 17442648     EISSN: 17442656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1332/174426406778023658     Document Type: Article

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